The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-27

ing proclamation was issued late thi
afternoon:
A PROCLAMATION.
By the President of the United States,
The goodness and the mercy of God
which has followed the American peo-
pie during all the days of the past year
claim their grateful recognition and
humble acknowledgment. By His
omnipotent power He protected us
| from war. and pestilence, and from
every national calamity-by His gra-
ciouS favor the earth has yielded an
enormous return to the labor of the
toll has led to comfort and con-
tentment by His loving kindness.
The hearts of our people
have been replenished with fraternal
sentiments and patriotic endeavor,
and by His unerring guidance we have
been directed in the way of national
prosperity. To the end that we with
these blessings, /, Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States, do
hereby designate and set apart Thurs
day, the twenty-fourth day of Novem-
Der next, as day of thanksgiving and
prayer to be observed by all the peo-
pie of the land. On that day let all
secular work and employment be sus-
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their accustomed places of worship,
give thanks to our Heavenly Father for
all that He has done for us. While we
humbly implore the forgiveness of
our sins and a continuance of his
mercy, let families and kindred
be reunited on that day, and let their
hearts filed with kindly cheer and
affectiOnate "reminiscences be turned in
thanhulness to the source of all their
pleasurers and the giver of all that
makes the day glad and joyous, and in
the midst of our people and our hap
piness let us remember the poor, the
needy and the unfortunate, and by our
gifts of benevolence let us increase
the number of those, who, with CRATE
full hearts, shall join in our thanksgiv-
ing.
In witness whereof, have set my
hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be hereunto affixed.
Done at the City OF
Washington, this 25th day
of October, in the year of
our Lord one thousand
SEAL eight hundred and eighty
seven, and of the indie |
pendence of the United
States, the one hundred
and twelfth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President:
T. F. BAYARD,
Secretary of State.
THE PROHIBITION CASES.
WASHINGTON, Oct. A.-The court
to-day deEied the motion by Mr.. Pack
ard, OF Chicago, to advance four prohi-
bition liquor cases from Iowa and one
from Georgia, standing on docket as
Numbers 1913 and 1901 to 1904 inclusive.
They involve the same questions which
were presented by the case of Siebold
and Hogelon, already argued. The
Attorney General of Kansas who, by
of misapPrehension, did not APP
pear to argue the latter case orally,
was in the court room this morning
and filed a petition for leave to make
an oral argument now, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the court has already
taken the case under advisement. The
question presented by this case is re-
garded as very important one, since
it involves the constitutionality of all
prohibition legislation since the adop-
tion of the Fourteenth Amendment,
which does not provide for compensa-
ton to brewers and distillers for the
value of the property destroyed by the
forcible closing of their establishments.
SWAMP LANDS CLAIMED.
WASHINGTON, Oct. PA decision
was rendered by the supreme SOurG Oh
the United States to-day in the three
cases of the United States, appellant,
against the States of Louisiana, Ala
bama and Mississippi. These were
suits brought in the Court of Claims by
the states named to recover from the
United States per cent. on the net
proceeds of the sales of public lands
within their limits, and also recover in
demnity for swamp lands purchased by
individuals, the proceeds of which
were, by statute, directed to be
applied as far as necessary to the
reclamation of such lands by
means of levees and drains. The
United States maintained that the
Court Of Claims had no jurisdiction
to determine cause in which a state
sued the United States, that part of
the claims were barred by the statute
of limitations, and that the United
States was entitled to make a set-off
or counterclaim on account of the
states Louisiana, Alabama and Mis-
sissippi under the act of August 5,
1861. The Court of Claims decided
that 1t had jurisdiction, that the dis
puted items were not barred by the
statute of limitations, and that the
set-off or counterclaim could not be
allowed. This court affirms the
judgment, opinion by Justice Field.